OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.00pm. BOTH windows of a bakkie, in which two People Against Gangsterism and Drugs supporters died, were closed when a bomb exploded in the vehicle, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. The case follows the death of Pagad supporters Faizel Hendricks, 30, and Nurulla Allie, 33, when a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisangani | Tuesday 11.00pm. WITH five attempts at peace mediation now failed, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading to pull in countries throughout the region. Sudan has sent 2,000 soldiers to bolster DRC President Laurent Kabila’s forces in the forward military headquarters of Kindu in eastern DRC, according to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00pm. CONTROVERSIAL foreign affairs official Robert McBride has accused South African police of deliberately misleading their Mozambican counterparts to ensure he was charged for gun-running, leading to his imprisonment for six months in Maputo. McBride said he has approached the Independent Complaints Directorate to lodge a complaint against the SA […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 7.00pm. A FORMER Kenyan game warden on Tuesday read an hour-long statement in a Kenyan court pleading his innocence in the murder of British tourist Julie Ward in Maasai Mara National Reserve 10 years ago. Shortly after his plea, Magistrate Uniter Kidullah ruled he is to stand trial as “there […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Grand Baie | Monday 10.00pm. RWANDAN and Ugandan delegates were reportedly refused permission to attend a closed door meeting of South African Development Community members in the Mauritian resort of Grand Baie on Monday. The two countries are not members of the 14-nation SADC. A Democratic Republic of Congo official said the DRC […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Monday 9.15pm. TENSION is rising in Kenya over the government’s decision last week to shut down five Moslem non-governmental organisations as retaliation for the August bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi. Kenyan Muslim organisations are claiming that US pressure led to the ban and that Muslims NGOs […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. SHAUN POLLOCK’s cricket team put in a lethargic performance to beat Bangladesh by six wickets after the cricketing minnows posted a paltry 79 all-out. The South African batsmen then lost the plot completely, and were five wickets down before opener Herschelle Gibbs steadied the ship. The South Africans will […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 1.00pm. FOREIGN affairs official Robert McBride, who has been detained in Mozambique since March on gunrunning and espionage charges, was provisionally released from jail on Monday. Speaking shortly after her husband’s release, Paula McBride said: “We’re extremely tired, and I can’t wait to take him home.” The couple will return […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 1.00pm. FOREIGN affairs official Robert McBride, arriving back in South Africa after being freed from detention in Mozambique on Monday, says he was falsely implicated on charges of gun running in Mozambique and that he knows who set him up. Speaking at a media conference at Johannesburg airport, McBride said […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 8.30PM. A HISTORIC deal has been signed to facilitate the redevelopment of Cape Town’s District Six, razed by the apartheid government in the 1960s. The agreement will pave the way for more than 45000 people, forcibly removed from their land and relocated on the barren Cape Flats under the […]